Ellery Queen arrives on the scene

Posted on November 24, 2024 by John Mark Ockerbloom

This year’s features several detectives’ debuts. One of the biggest detective franchises that began in 1929 is Ellery Queen, which is both a pen name first used by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, and the name of the detective they created. Ellery Queen’s first novel, The Roman Hat Mystery, joins the public domain in 38 days. The book was followed by many more stories, as well as films, comics, and radio and TV series. His namesake magazine also continues to this day.

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6 Responses to Ellery Queen arrives on the scene

  1. Unknown's avatar Cognitive Dissidence says:
    December 2, 2024 at 10:44 am

    @everybodyslibraries.com

    According to Wikipedia, that pen name was also used by SF author Jack Vance when writing mysteries. Was it a "stable" name like The Hardy Boys' Franklin W. Dixon?

    Edit: never mind, i just read the linked article. Maybe Vance was one of the ghost writers who wrote later EQ books.

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